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8 insider tips to better your product thinking with ChatGPT

8 insider tips to better your product thinking with ChatGPT

A collective guide of 100+ proven uses on ChatGPT to build world-class products and combine in your daily design processes.

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Felix Lee
Feb 07, 2023
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ChatGPT Is Shaking Up The Industry

AI-assisted design is poised to change design forever But most people are stuck on beginner-level. ChatGPT got to 100 Million users in only 60 days. Let’s put that number into context:

  • Netflix: 10 Years

  • Gmail: 5 Years

  • Twitter: 5 Years

  • Instagram: 2.5 Years

  • TikTok: 9 Months

  • ChatGPT: 60 Days

This virality speaks to the incredible usefulness of the tool. As a designer, product manager you must learn to leverage this tool to tap into the endless possibilities of AI-assisted design & products.

8 insider tips to better your product thinking with ChatGPT (with 100 prompts)

1. Speed Up Your Design Process

ChatGPT can assist in improving design processes by providing quick and relevant information for designers to make informed decisions, generate ideas and concept sketches, simulate user interactions and behavior, and analyze user feedback. Additionally, ChatGPT can also be used for natural language processing tasks like generating design reports and documentations, and even translating design language to other language.

Use these prompts

  • What sort of design method works best for testing new ideas?

  • What are some ways to design for mobile?

  • What kinds of UX methods will help me uncover user needs?

2. Generate Design Specs

Specs outlines key design information that designers use to handoff. ChatGPT can write pretty good specs and save you tons of time as a start.

Use these prompts

  • Write a design spec for [idea].

  • Specify what I need on [brief].

  • Create a design brief for [context].

  • Write a specifciation for [context] that engineers can use.


3. Your Personal Advisor

We all need to bounce ideas, ChatGPT can do that with you brilliantly. To help you uncover blindspots or biasness. ChatGPT is very good at providing feedback or expertise while acting as various characters. The only limit is your imagination. You could have it act as a Design Advisor, Tech CEO, engineer, statistician, or even a user persona.

Use these prompts

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